Sonore Optical Rendu and Roon - sounds exceptional (IMO) and you'll have plenty of headroom in the budget.
Streamer Selection - Thoughts Requested Please!
I have been talking way to much to myself on my next purchase - a streamer, no DAC. I have reached the point of going round and round with the same three streamers - Innuos Pulse, Auralic G1.1 and Aurender N150. Mid $3K price range max. The Auralic G1.1 list just dropping by $1K to $2,249. The Innuos Pulse list is $3,250 and the Aurender N150 is at $3,500. Would be open to lightly used to upgrade my choices but the upgraded next step in each product line is a significant jump.
I began streaming with a Blusound Node 2021 Gen 3 which I converted last year with the PD Creative board LPSU and added an SBooster P&P Eco power supply. This was an improvement in my digital listening using the BS node for the DAC and streaming mainly TIDAL. Six months ago I added a Schitt Yggydrasil LIM (Less is More) and oh my goodness what a difference overall. I have the BS Node connected by an ethernet cable to my router. Use an iPad to run BlueOS and the Tidal app. The BS node is connected via USB to the Schitt Yggy.
I don't have a need for storage or playing CD's. Reading a few threads here have convinced me that a streamer upgrade with my system will provide better sound overall. How much is certainly an open question but I am willing to go forward. The rest of my system is a First Watt F8 amp, Modwright LS100 and Modwright 9.0 along with a Clearaudio Concept table and Zu Dirty Weekend Supremes.
Whats important to me would be the sound quality, an app with solid integration with Apple and TIDAL. I am leaning to Aurender as their players/transports are "streamers" / no DAC, they seem to integrate well with Apple and the Conductor app gets mixed reviews but mostly is well liked. I am just not sure if with my present system it makes sense to be over $3K for a streamer, although if down the line I move on from the Yggy, I wouldn't want to then add a new streamer.
Please jump in with thoughts, suggestions and let me know if I have missed any important criteria or other approaches/audio streamers. Thanks in advance.....
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Norust. I respect everyone's opinions who have moved on to more expensive streamers. But I did what you did and stopped at the Bluesound Node with PD Creative PS and Denafrips Pontus 12th anniversary. It sounds so good to me but when I wanted to step up- I went with a Bluesound Node X and a Teddy Pardo PS which has not arrived yet. I like the Bluesound ecosystem and OS as well.... |
rbstehnoyou have a lot of misconceptions "iMO, Mac minis are much quiete"r no they are not we are not talking about fan noise but electrictrical noise which is what EVERY dedicated server is. Also, I believe these factors that weigh heavily on sq: a server of any kind in your audio room is bad, no this is wrong if the server has been designed for low noise rfi t makes no difference where the server is located
Our servers combat noise in a number of ways first the cpu is a low noise cpu designed to run Roon efficiently without requiring an excessivily fast cpu the greater the cpu’s processing power the greater the noise We employ a 3d printed all copper cpu shield designed to shield the cpu and eliminate rfi radiation.
Our OS is one of the keys to running roon to maximize sound quality We run Roon in its own CPU core We run machine housekeeping on its own CPU core We employ a third core for fille allocation and caching.it is for all of these reasons a dedicated server will outperform a mac mini, a mac mini is a great little computer but it has not been designed or sound quality.
manufacturer’s so i2s doesn’t mean everything will work, where usb is guaranteed to work.
so it comes down to design by the way the server is built We have sold and tested: Aurender, auraylic, Sotm, baetis and laufer tehnnik,lumin and Innous al vs mac minis and custom pc solutions
so long story short we have years of actual testing.
Dave and Troy Audio intellect nj us importers 432evo music servers |
@audiotroy - I am a new here but believe your above response was directed at comments by @rbstehno so I have linked him by the @ here so he can view your post. From your earlier post on page one I see that you are a vendor and from what I could pick up from the verbiage, the streamer you are suggesting is the 432 EVO music server. I have no issue at all with vendor responses and welcome information to assist me in my selection. In this case I had to take the initiative by doing the work myself to figure out who you were, the product represented and seek out the reviews/info as there were no links in your post. I had a bit of confusion in following your comments. I went to the review in the Absolute Sound review and figured out that the $7,800 price for the EVO server you mentioned was EVO's middle tier offering and not their entry level offering. A bit of time in searching showed that EVO designates their entry level server as the Standard for $3,500 - which is in my range. You did point out the platforms upgradeability which would be a big plus. Net is the user management software of either LMS or Roon for the EVO is not in my wheelhouse at this time. I also understand that in addition a to whatever management software is selected, a local player would be required to access Roon or LMS in order to establish the EVO's operating parameters. I am not ready to take all this on and simply want to add a streamer to utilize Tidal. I am sure that EVO servers are top tier products and wish you success in your marketing efforts. |
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